71st Street Widening Project: Phase 1, Image A

71st Street and Lewis Avenue looking west with heavy traffic jams. The traffic is backed up from east of Lewis Avenue to the 71st Street bridge, a distance of more than a mile. There are "passing lanes" on the approaches at Lewis Avenue, but they do little to relieve the congestion that plagues this section. The project, which is scheduled to begin later this year, will be the first street project from the 1983 bond issue to go to contract. Photograph taken February 1, 1984.

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